The 27th Stora Enso Cup, the golf challenge between the Swedish and Finnish Chambers was played on Friday, 13 November at Taiheiyo Club Gotemba West in Shizuoka Prefecture. The event was played very nice and rather warm autumn weather, and with nice colors and Mt. Fuji visible close-by on a number of holes.
The individual winner (best net) was Tatsunosuke Tominaga (FCCJ) with a net 67 (gross 93). Second best net was Sakari Romu (FCCJ), net 70 and with a gross of 78 which was the best of the day.
Third best gross was Naota Kusumi (FCCJ), net 74 (gross 93).
Tsuyoshi Hirao was the best SCCJ golfer with a net 74 (gross 99) and subsequently he won the SCCJ Autumn Golf Cup.
Second Best gross was Yasuo Aso (SCCJ guest) with 85, third Tomoichi Onishi (FCCJ) with 86.
For full results, see below.
The winners of the longest drive were Keizo Mori (SCCJ) on No. 9 and Nobuhiko Miyaji (SCCJ) on No. 15.
The near pin winners were: Keizo Mori, SCCJ (no. 4), Tatsunosuke Tominaga, FCCJ (no. 7), Sakari Romu, FCCJ (no. 12) and Stefan Gustafsson, SCCJ (no. 17)

We would like to thank the title sponsor Stora Enso Japan as well as all the players (and their companies) who brought nice prizes to the competition. Our thanks go also to the Taiheiyo Club Gotemba West and their staff for helping us making this a great event at reasonable costs.
Stora Enso also brought a big cake to the party and prize ceremony, celebrating their 40 years in Japan (see images at the bottom of this page).

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

Pos.

Player

Company

Team

HCP

Gross

Net

1.

Tatsunosuke Tominaga

UPM-Kymmene Japan

FCCJ

26

93

67

2.

Sakari Romu

Individual Member

FCCJ

8

78

70

3.

Naota Kusumi

Stora Enso Japan

FCCJ

19

93

74

4.

Atsushi Yamazaki

Stora Enso Japan

FCCJ

20

94

74

5.

Tsuyoshi Hirao

Sweden House Co., Ltd.

SCCJ

25

99

74

6.

Carl Eklund

Hoganas K.K.

SCCJ

16

91

75

7.

Yutaka Chiba

Western Associates

FCCJ

25

102

77

8.

Tomoichi Onishi

Western Associates

FCCJ

8

86

78

9.

Hiroaki Sugawara

Finn Corporation

FCCJ

15

963

78

10.

Kimio Hashida

Individual Member

FCCJ

19

9

78

11.

Yoshihiro Yoshida

IFS Japan

SCCJ

25

103

78

12.

Tomoji Nogami

Finnair

FCCJ

20

99

79

13.

Nobuhiko Miyaji

IFS Japan

SCCJ

12

93

81

14.

Eiji Takagi

Individual member

SCCJ

11

93

82

15.

Nobuyuki Henmi

Western Associates

FCCJ

18

100

82

16.

Hirokuni Yoshida

Individual Member

FCCJ

25

107

82

17.

Tuomo Kuuppo

Stora Enso Japan

FCCJ

20

103

83

18.

Hisako Noto

Advertise Inc.

FCCJ

24

107

83

19.

Jan Sandström

Ericsson

SCCJ

21

106

85

20.

Noriyuki Kaneko

Beauty Pollen

SCCJ

24

111

87

21.

Keizo Mori

IFS Japan

SCCJ

18

106

88

22.

Takeshi Yokoyama

Finnair Cargo

FCCJ

22

110

88

23.

Markus Kokko

Embassy of Finland

FCCJ

30

118

88

24.

Clas G. Bystedt

FCCJ

FCCJ

25

114

89

25.

Stefan Gustafsson

IFS Japan

SCCJ

25

114

89

26.

Sueaki Sato

Beauty Pollen

SCCJ

24

116

92

27.

Akikazu Okamura

Advertise Inc.

FCCJ

23

117

94

28.

Pekka Sommarberg

Embassy of Finland

FCCJ

25

119

94

* Note: if players have same net, the one with lower handicap wins, if still same, the older player wins.